Merrivale Settlement
Photo taken on 25-07-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 2]
OS Map: SX 555 749
OS Source: PDW
HER: MDV4897
Megalithic Portal: 1520
Alternate name: Merrivale
Short Name: ST Merrivale
DPD page: 18
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Hut Class: No
Lidar: SX 555 749
Guide Map: 33
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (0.9 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 555 749
Notes
Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement is a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement, including at least thirty six hut circles and four separate enclosures. Lethbridge pp.16-18, diagram p.16.References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Second Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.27 pp.81-92 (1895)
- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Heart of Dartmoor, (1926)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Gerrard, Sandy, English Heritage Book of Dartmoor: Landscapes Through Time, (1997)
- Lethbridge, William D., Discover Preshistoric Dartmoor, (2015)
- Wilkinson J. Gardner, British Remains on Dartmoor, Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. xviii. pp.22-53, 111-133. (1862)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Pounds of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.75 pp.273-302 (1943)